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WAISTBAND. APPLICATION P ILED SEPT. 30, 1902.

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LOUIS PHILLIP KLEIDERER, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

WAISTBAN D.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 717 ,868, dated January 6, 1903.

f Application iiled September 30, 1902. Serial No. 125,426. (No model.)

To all whom zizi may con/cern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS PHILLIP KLEID- ERER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and Improved Waistband, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in waistands for trousers or other garments, the object being to provide a band with beltstraps formed directly therein or integral therewith.

I will describe a waistband embodying my invention and then point out the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in al1 the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a portion of a waistband made according to my invention. Figi 2 is a section on the line x of Fig. 1., Fig. 3 is a section on the line y y of Fig. 1,v and Fig. 4 shows the band before turning or forming a strap.

The waistband consists of the outer portion l and a lining 2, this band being secured to the trousers in the usual manner. At suitable intervals the belt-receiving straps are formed, and in forming each strap the belt'l is slitted, as indicated at 3, the slits being parallel and extended nearly the width of the `claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A waistband having adjacent parallel slits the material between the slits being folded to form a belt-strap. l

2. A waistband comprising an outer por tion, a lining, the outer portion having parallel slits, the material between the slits being folded inward to form a box-plait, and the edges of the outer portion being turned against the lining and boX-plaited inward of the straps.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS PHILLIP KLEIDERER.

Witnesses:

CONRAD KLEIDEIzER, CHRISTIAN WOERTZ. 

